HUGHES & KETTNER TubeMeister 18 Head

THE NEXT BIG HUGHES & KETTNER

TubeMeister is the answer to demands from Hughes & Kettner Custom-Tube-Enthusiasts for a compact tube amp with which you can rock the stage, practice at home and can record silently in the hotel room. The Tube Meister 18 offers two foot-switchable channels with their own GAIN and MASTER, foot-switchable LEAD BOOST, 3-Band EQ, serial FX-LOOP, 18/5/1/0 Watt Power-Soak and a built in Red Box with XLR recording out. The maintenance free TSC-Power amp (Autobias) with two EL84 and over sized Trafos guaranteed true stage volume.

18 Watts

2 Channels

Gain and Master Controls per channel

Foot-switchable

Lead Boost

3-Band EQ

Serial FX-Loop

18/5/1/0-Watt Power-Soak

Built-in Red Box with XLR-Recording-Out

FS-2 footswitch optional

TSC-Power amp (Autobias)

2x EL84 Tubes

including Bag

Features:

Manufacturer: Hughes & Kettner

Power Output (Watt): 18

Tubes (Poweramp): EL84

Number of Channels: 2

Reverb: Yes

Effects loop: Yes

Recording Output: Yes

Foot Switch Connection: Yes

Speaker Connection: 8, 16 Ohm

Weight (kg): 5

Rating

4.7

Craftsmanship (5.0)

Sound (3.5)

Operation (4.0)

Features (3.0)

Price/Performance (4.0)

16 Review

Hughes & Kettner TubeMeister 18 Head

Nice and lightweight Head with cool glamorous blue light front panel. Its almost great but has a two major disapointment features.The first one : You cant use the clean channel on stage with drummer, simply has not enough headroom. Its pretty quiet.The second : Clean channel is overcompressed . Not touch sensitive at all....But dont forget its very cool device. Crunch channel really sounds great, very loud and huge, has solo boost. With solo boost you can easy play all kinds of metal from old school to extreme modern. If you roll back the gain knob you get Nice warm cleen sound, very touch sensitive. And you can use it without cab, cause you have onboard attenuator and Red Box D.I. for run in a mixing board directly.P.S. The bag is Cool!